QT Export from FCPro won’t play on Windows

[Christopher Targia]

Make sure you are using a good codec, H.264 is the most popular and works well with windows, if you are just exporting it might be going out in a FCP only format that will not play on any system that doesn’t have FCP installed.

[Shane Ross]

#48 – Cannot view DVCPRO HD or HDV or ProRes on my computer.

Shane’s Stock Answer #48 – Cannot view DVCPRO HD, HDV or ProRes QT files on your computer.

The DVCPRO HD, HDV and ProRes codecs only comes with FCP. If your computer does not have FCP installed, it cannot view these quicktime files. It doesn’t matter if it is a Mac or PC, without FCP installed, you cannot view these files.

If you need to view ProRes material, you can download the ProRes decoder (mac and windows compatible) for ProRes

https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows.

https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Mac

If your footage was captured as DVCRO HD you can buy the Calibrated DVCPRO HD decoder:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QDVCProHD.asp

HDV, XDCAM? Calibrated has you covered too:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

If you have MXF files from a P2 camera and you need to view the footage on a computer without FCP, you can download P2CMS from Panasonic:

https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/p2-hd/downloads-and-updates.asp

Or you need the other party to compress the footage into a format your computer can play, like H.264.

Shane

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[Sage Dubois]

Thank YOU!!! My QT file is now playing on windows. I am going to be putting about 4 minutes of this HD footage on a 8GB key drive. What is the best way to export my FCP file so that it will play off that key drive seemlessly?

Also, I am using Toast to burn a DVD of this HD footage and when I play the DVD on my computer the text looks really blurry and pixelated. Do you know what might be causing this? When I play the DVD on tv the text is fine.

THANKS AGAIN!!!